Fellowships and Awards

2022 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend Award ($6,000)

2013 American Council of Learned Societies, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship ($33,000)

2013 Council for European Studies, Mellon/CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship, ($25,000—declined)

2011 Fulbright-Hays/IIE, Graduate Fellowship for International Study ($30,000)

2011 Wenner-Gren Foundation, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant ($20,000)

2010 Council for European Studies, Mellon Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship ($5,000)

2007 Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship ($5,000)

2004 International Institute for Political and Economic Studies, Georgetown University Summer School, Greece ($3,000)

NYUAD

2025 Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World, NYUAD Institute, NYU Abu Dhabi ($2,000)

2023 Provost’s Office, Publication Grant for the book manuscript “Pious Politics: Cultural Foundations of the Islamist Movement in Turkey,”

NYU Abu Dhabi ($5,000)

2019 NYUAD Institute, Conference Grant for “Theorizing Social Change: Policies, Institutions, Culture Conference,” NYU Abu Dhabi ($45,000)

UCLA

2012 UCLA College of Letters and Sciences, Russian/Eurasian Studies Fellowship ($18,000)

2010 UCLA Alumni Association Fellowship ($18,000)

2008 UCLA Center for World Languages, Summer Fellowship for the Study of Intensive Arabic ($2,000)

2006–2008 UC-Berkeley Institute of European Studies, Entering Graduate Student Fellowship in Modern European Studies ($15,000)

2006–2008 International Institute, Global Scholars Fellowship ($10,000)

2006–2008 College of Letters and Sciences, Shirley and Ralph Shapiro International Student Fellowship ($10,000)

2006 Department of Sociology, Departmental Fellowship ($18,000)